Papers comprising Sotheby's July 1989 sale lot 165

Title

Papers comprising Sotheby's July 1989 sale lot 165

Shelfmark

MS. Eng. c. 7876

Summary

Comprises, with a list of the papers and descriptive notes compiled by Sotheby's cataloguer,

Incomplete essay on baroque painters, written during undergraduate archaeology studies at the University of Edinburgh, c.1968

University of Edinburgh examination paper for Fine Art M.A. Hons., n.d.

Incomplete drafts of sections marked I-XII of unpublished work 'The Nomadic Alternative' on subjects including childrearing; anti-materialism; territorialism; and rites of passage into manhood, n.d.

Miscellaneous writings on subjects including guerrilla warfare; the history of the city; language and communication; Chinese nomads; and a newspaper cutting concerning nomad art, n.d.

Draft extracts from 'The Nomadic Alternative' on 'Protection from Predators'; Nemadi camp in Oualata; on Lorenz; on economic wandering; with last page autobiographical account of using eye complaint to get travel leave from Sotheby's, n.d.

Draft extracts from 'The Nomadic Alternative' on behaviour; notion of the survival of the fittest; and Hesoid, n.d.

Draft extract from 'The Nomadic Alternative' on 'Rousseau and the Hunters', n.d.

Working papers for 'The Nomadic Alternative' outlining Chatwin's thesis, n.d.

Working papers for 'The Nomadic Alternative' on Jehovah and Isaiah; Hebrews; glossary of words; nomad children, n.d.

Working papers for 'The Nomadic Alternative' on hunters and the nemadi; 'The progress of skeletal evolution'; 'The ignoble savage'; 'The primordial murder'; 'Civilised man is a domestic animal'; 'Homo Faber'; 'The upthrust of moral progress'; 'Man has no instincts'; Plato and Aristotle on progress of races, n.d.

Working papers for 'The Nomadic Alternative' on language; 'Animal metaphors'; instinctive behaviour; 'The Wander Voyage' and Beowulf; shamans; 'The homeless state'; pyramids; nomads; religion, ritual and wandering, n.d.

Working papers for 'The Nomadic Alternative' with filing cards from card index of research notes (see MSS. Eng. e. 3722-3723); miscellaneous notes; notes on marriage and travelling; and notes on Attila the Hun and the origin of dreams, n.d.

Filing cards from card index of research notes for 'The Nomadic Alternative' (see MSS. Eng. e. 3722-3723), n.d.

Working papers for 'The Nomadic Alternative' on subjects including innate orientating system; arrival of the horse; Christ's recruitment of hunters and gatherers; nomads of Tibet; Communist manifesto; Beowulf; human cycle; and Lovejoy; and filing card from card index of research notes (see MSS. Eng. e. 3722-3723), n.d.

Notes on J.B.S. Haldane's 1965 Huxley Memorial Lecture; with material on Konrad Lorenz; filing card from card index of research notes for 'The Nomadic Alternative' (see MSS. Eng. e. 3722-3723), n.d.

Date

c.1989, mainly n.d.

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box